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Reading Recovery Homework Instructions
*The following activities are very important for your child’s reading success!
Activity #1: Reading Familiar Books
Please let your child read these books to you. If your child has trouble with a word, he/she must look at the picture for clues. He/she must also look at the beginning and then all the letters in the word. (left to right) These clues will help your child make good "guesses" about the unknown word. Be careful not to just tell your child any unknown words, but help work through the unknown words together. I have put a sheet that you can keep in the folder to refer to that will help you know what to do when your child comes to an unknown word. I want them to figure out the word so that they are learning strategies to help themselves when reading independently.
Activity #2: The Cut-Up Sentence
You can help your child by listening to him/her read the complete sentence printed on the white letter envelope. Next, watch your child put the pieces of the “cut-up sentence” into the correct sentence order, being sure to leave a two-finger spacing between the words. Ask your child to check it against the sentence that is written on the envelope.
*Suggestion: You could get a notebook (sentence booklet) and have your child glue the sentence in the notebook, then draw and color a picture on that same page to show the meaning of the sentence story. Each day, your child needs to practice by rereading the previous sentences in the notebook.
*Suggestion: You could put the sentence pieces back into the envelop and place it into a box. Then the child could practice putting their sentences back together and reading them again.
This activity is very important. Writing and reading are so closely linked and they help your child become a better student. Writing is reading slowed down!!! This sentence is something that reinforces reading comprehension and your child needs to get into the habit of completing homework daily.
Please help your child to remember to return the books in his/her book bag each day. They must bring the books back in order to get more books to take home. You will see your child enjoy reading and gaining confidence each day!!
Thanks,
Ms. Long
Reading Interventionist
Belvedere Elementary
What is reading Recovery?
Goal
The goal of Reading Recovery is to dramatically reduce the number of first-grade students who have extreme difficulty learning to read and write and to reduce the cost of these learners to educational systems.
What
Reading Recovery is a highly effective short-term intervention of one-to-one tutoring for low-achieving first graders.
How
Individual students receive a half-hour lesson each school day for 12 to 20 weeks with a specially trained Reading Recovery teacher. As soon as students can meet grade-level expectations and demonstrate that they can continue to work independently in the classroom, their lessons are discontinued, and new students begin individual instruction.
Reading Recovery Lessons
Lesson Objective
The objective of Reading Recovery lessons is to promote accelerated learning so that students catch up to their peers, close the achievement gap as quickly as possible, and can benefit from classroom instruction without supplemental help.
Individually Designed Lessons
Daily 30-minute Reading Recovery lessons are individually designed and individually delivered by specially trained teachers. Using a wide range of procedures, teachers make moment-by-moment decisions within each lesson to support the individual child.
Assessment Based on Systematic Observation
In Reading Recovery, careful observation of reading and writing behaviors guides teaching decisions. As teachers gather data they align their teaching with what a child actually does.
- Reading Recovery teachers are trained to use Clay's An Observation Survey of Early Literacy Achievement2 to assess each child's strengths and confusions.
- The first 10 sessions provide further opportunities for assessment as the child engages in reading and writing.
- The teacher takes a running record of the child's progress on text reading every day and uses the data to plan future lessons.
- The teacher uses other observational data to inform instruction: daily lesson records, students’ writing, and change over time in reading and writing vocabulary.
Lesson Content
- Each lesson consists of reading familiar books, reading yesterday’s new book and taking a running record, working with letters and/or words using magnetic letters, writing a story, assembling a cut-up story, and reading a new book.
- The teacher creates opportunities for the child to problem solve and provides just enough support to help the child develop strategic behaviors to use on texts in both reading and writing.
Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Spelling, Comprehension, and Fluency
- Every lesson incorporates learning about letter/sound relationships.
- Children are taught to hear and record sounds and to work with spelling patterns.
- Reading Recovery encourages comprehension and problem solving with print so that decoding is purposeful and students read fluently.
Outcomes of Lessons
A series of Reading Recovery lessons has two positive outcomes:
- The child meets grade-level expectations and can make progress with classroom instruction, no longer needing extra help. (This is the outcome for approximately 75% of the children with a complete Reading Recovery intervention.)
- The child makes significant progress but does not reach grade-level expectations. Additional evaluation is recommended and further action is initiated to help the child continue making progress.
